With the stakes even higher for Sunday’s Super Bowl against the New England Patriots, Philly’s finest have to come up with a better plan. Win or lose, the city will surely have some prospective pole climbers on Sunday.

“I don’t think we’ll use that this time,” Ross said. “I can’t tell you there won’t still be attempts. But I just would suspect that some of them would be far more difficult than they were with the Crisco attempt. As I’m told maybe after a while, with weather, it can have an adverse effect on the Crisco. I’m not an expert on that.”

Not a Crisco expert, huh? Far more difficult, you say? Interesting.

“We will be doing some other things relative to trying to keep people off of certain objects. … there will be some small variations to what we did last week.”